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Quote from: bryant.coleman on Today at 03:24:05 AM

Quote from: Haunebu on December 06, 2020, 05:16:46 PM

I never liked Saini's bowling from the beginning, but many posters here appreciated his bowling. I feel there are better alternatives out there.

The advantage for Navdeep Saini and Mohammed Siraj is that both of them play for RCB, which happens to be Virat Kohli's IPL franchise. Earlier there was a "CSK quota" in the Indian team, through which Mahendra Singh Dhoni got players such as Kedar Jadhav selected for the Indian team. Now this CSK quota has been replaced with the RCB quota. I am not saying that Saini and Siraj are bad players. But it is a fact that more deserving (or even equally deserving) players get overlooked in their favor.

I totally agree with you. I think Natarajan plays much better than Saini and Siraj. He will do better if he is trained well. He has bowled brilliantly in the last T20 match against Australia. He is far ahead of Saini and Siraj.

@bryant.coleman I would like to take a different approach here, and say whether you see from the ex Indian captain’s eye i.e. Ms Dhoni, or the current captain Virat’s eyes then you’ll see that they selected the player’s they felt that can execute their game plan better than the other player’s. Furthermore many times it’s not overall records that matter, but it’s the trust that the captain has in his chosen player’s which often proves decisive in important matches.